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A long solar filament erupted on the Sun on April 28-29, 2015. Image credit: ESA / NASA / SOHO.

NASA’s SOHO Sees Huge Filament Erupt on Sun

May 5, 2015 by News Staff

On April 28-29, 2015 a massive filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun’s atmosphere erupted into space in a large burst of bright...

This image shows the star-forming galaxy UGC 5797. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / Luca Limatola.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Image of Star-Forming Galaxy UGC 5797

Apr 27, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have acquired an image of a distant galaxy called UGC 5797. This image shows the star-forming galaxy...

This composite image shows the Thor’s Helmet Nebula, also known NGC 2359. It combines X-ray data collected by XMM-Newton (blue) with optical observations from the Star Shadows Remote Observatory (green and red). North is to the left, west is up. Image credit: J.A. Toala & M.A. Guerrero, IAA-CSIC / Y.-H. Chu, UIUC-ASIAA / R.A. Gruendl, UIUC / S. Mazlin, J. Harvey, D. Verschatse & R. Gilbert, SSRO-South / ESA.

Astronomers Capture Extraordinary View of Thor’s Helmet Nebula

Apr 21, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the EPIC cameras on ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory and the Star Shadows Remote Observatory at New Mexico Skies and Cerro Tololo...

The pictures on the left indicate the positions of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium fluxgate magnetometer (RPC-MAG) on the orbiter and of the Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor (ROMAP) on the lander. The graph on the right shows the data collected by the instruments. The data shown cover the period immediately prior to the second touchdown of Philae on November 12, 2014. Image credit: ESA / Auster et al / ATG medialab.

Nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is Non-Magnetic, Scientists Say

Apr 14, 2015 by News Staff

Complementary data collected by the Rosetta Plasma Consortium fluxgate magnetometer (RPC-MAG) on board ESA’s Rosetta orbiter, and by the Rosetta Lander...

This is a close-up of the central region of the globular cluster Messier 22, as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Space Telescope Views Globular Cluster Messier 22

Apr 6, 2015 by News Staff

This newly released Hubble image shows Messier 22, the brightest globular cluster visible from the northern hemisphere. This is a close-up of the central...

The Planck all-sky map at submillimeter wavelengths; the band running through the middle corresponds to dust in the Milky Way Galaxy; the black dots indicate the location of the proto-cluster candidates identified by Planck and subsequently observed by Herschel. The inset images showcase some of the observations made by Herschel’s SPIRE instrument; the contours represent the density of galaxies. Image credit: ESA / Planck Collaboration / H. Dole / D. Guéry / G. Hurier / IAS / University Paris-Sud / CNRS / CNES.

Astronomers Discover Over 200 Young Galactic Clusters in Distant Cosmos

Apr 1, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using data from two ESA’s space telescopes, Planck and Herschel, has identified more than 200 proto-clusters of...

This mosaic image from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft is centered at 9 degrees north latitude, 254 degrees west longitude. The image was acquired at a distance of about 57,800 km from Rhea. This image represents one of the highest resolution color views of the icy moon released to date, and consists of multiple images from Cassini’s narrow-angle camera (NAC) with data from the wide-angle camera used to fill in areas where NAC data was not available. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

Cassini Zeroes in on Saturn’s Icy Moon Rhea

Mar 31, 2015 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has captured the best images so far of Rhea, the fourteenth of Saturn’s known moons. This mosaic image from...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope photo of NGC 3021. Image credit: NASA / ESA / A. Riess, STScI.

Gorgeous New Image from Hubble Space Telescope Shows Spiral Galaxy NGC 3021

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy...

This image shows an artistic representation of an active supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. Image credit: ESA / ATG medialab.

Astronomers See Supermassive Black Hole in Action

Mar 30, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, led by Dr Francesco Tombesi of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, has observed two related phenomena...

This Hubble image shows the galaxy cluster MACS J0416.1-2403; shown in blue is a map of the dark matter found within the cluster. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Harvey / R. Massey / HST Frontier Fields.

Colliding Galaxy Clusters Offer Clues to Dark Matter

Mar 26, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers led by Dr David Harvey of the Observatory of Sauverny in Switzerland and the University of Edinburgh, UK, has studied...

Rosetta NavCam image taken on 14 March 2015 at 85.7 km from the center of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko; it has been cleaned to remove the more obvious bad pixels and cosmic ray artefacts, and intensities have been scaled. Image credit: ESA / Rosetta / NAVCAM / CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.

Rosetta Detects Molecular Nitrogen at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Mar 23, 2015 by News Staff

The Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) instrument on ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has made the first measurement of molecular...

Part of the Cydonia Mensae region on Mars. The image was acquired by the Mars Express orbiter on 19 November 2014. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / IGO / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Mars Express Captures Mysterious Cydonia Mensae

Mar 16, 2015 by News Staff

A new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows the portion of the Cydonia Mensae, a region that is home to a...

This image shows the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars. The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Hubble Heritage Team.

Astronomers Create Hubble Source Catalog

Mar 16, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has created a new comprehensive catalog of astronomical objects observed with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image shows...

Close view of a 228 x 228 m region on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken 6 km above the surface. Rosetta’s fuzzy shadow, measuring about 20 x 50 m, is seen on the right of the image. Image credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA.

Rosetta Sees Its Shadow on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Mar 4, 2015 by News Staff

New images from the OSIRIS camera on European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe taken during the close flyby on February 14, 2015, reveal the surface of the...

A new comet was discovered sling-shotting around the Sun, as seen in this image from February 20, 2015, by the SOHO observatory; the Sun is blocked in this image, called a coronagraph, so that the dim light of its atmosphere, or corona, is visible. Image credit: ESA / NASA / SOHO / Hill.

SOHO Observatory Discovers Unusual Sungrazing Comet

Feb 25, 2015 by News Staff

An unusual sungrazer skimmed past the Sun in February, as captured by ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). A new comet was discovered...

Supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies blast radiation and ultra-fast winds outward, as illustrated in this artist's conception, based on an image of the Pinwheel galaxy from Hubble. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Space Telescopes Capture Ultra-Fast Black Hole Winds

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-ray telescopes, astronomers have discovered that the super-fast...

This image was acquired by ESA’s Mars Express on October 8, 2014. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

ESA’s Mars Express Zeroes in on Phlegra Montes

Feb 20, 2015 by News Staff

ESA’s Mars Express orbiter has obtained a spectacular color image of the southernmost portion of Phlegra Montes, a mountain range in the Cebrenia quadrangle...

Temperature and salinity measurements (averaged between 2010 and 2014) from several satellites, including ESA’s SMOS mission, have been used to map ocean alkalinity, the ability of a solution to neutralize acids and thus resist to changes in pH. Image credit: Ifremer / ESA / CNES.

New Satellite Maps Reveal Global Ocean Alkalinity

Feb 18, 2015 by News Staff

Innovative techniques that use satellites to monitor ocean acidification are set to revolutionize the way that scientists study the Earth’s oceans....

Four-image mosaic of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comprising images taken on 14 February 2015 during the first dedicated close flyby; this image set was taken from a distance of 8.9 km. Image credit: ESA / Rosetta / NavCam / CC BY-SA IGO 3.0.

Rosetta Captures New Close-Ups of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Feb 17, 2015 by News Staff

The Navigation Camera (NavCam) instrument on ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft has captured close-up high-resolution images of the comet surface, revealing details...

This image shows the location of the mysterious plume (circled) on Mars; south is up. Image credit: W. Jaeschke / D. Parker.

High-Altitude Clouds or Auroras? Researchers Puzzled by Mysterious Plumes on Mars

Feb 17, 2015 by News Staff

Strange plumes that have been observed above the surface of the Red Planet are baffling scientists. This image shows the location of the mysterious plume...

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